Bucky
Thu Aug-30-07 02:06
4. Thank you, Gov Perry, for that tiny drop of rain in the desert. May I have another, sir?
Foster is simply not complicit in that murder. He didn't, as the press reports, "drive the getaway vehicle." He was actually unaware that a crime took place until after he finished driving away. He doesn't deserve life in prison, either. He should be resentenced--maybe--as an accessory after the fact. But a review of this case makes it clear that a life sentence is still way too harsh a penalty for having the wrong friend at the wrong time.
Thu Aug-30-07 02:06
4. Thank you, Gov Perry, for that tiny drop of rain in the desert. May I have another, sir?
Foster is simply not complicit in that murder. He didn't, as the press reports, "drive the getaway vehicle." He was actually unaware that a crime took place until after he finished driving away. He doesn't deserve life in prison, either. He should be resentenced--maybe--as an accessory after the fact. But a review of this case makes it clear that a life sentence is still way too harsh a penalty for having the wrong friend at the wrong time.
Texas governor spares getaway driverKenneth Foster sentence commuted; execution reduced to life in prison.
Texas Governor Rick Perry on Thursday spared the life of a death row inmate who had never killed anyone, commuting his sentence hours before an execution that had drawn international attention.
Texas Governor Rick Perry on Thursday spared the life of a death row inmate who had never killed anyone, commuting his sentence hours before an execution that had drawn international attention.
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